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Russian President Vladimir Putin signs bills making Crimea part of Russia in the Kremlin in Moscow, Friday, March 21, 2014. President Vladimir Putin completed the annexation of Crimea on Friday, signing the peninsula into Russia at nearly the same time his Ukrainian counterpart sealed a deal pulling his country closer into Europe's orbit. (AP Photo/Sergei Chirikov, Pool)

Russian riposte

With its intervention in Crimea, Russia is sending a clear message to the U.S. and its Western allies that the unipolar world order is not viable anym
VLADIMIR RADYUHIN,in Moscow
TOPSHOTS People walk past a poster in Sevastopol on March 11, 2014 reading 'On March 16 we will choose either... or...', depicting Crimea in red with a swastika and covered in barbed wire (L) and Crimea with the colors of the Russian flag. Pro-Moscow lawmakers in Crimea voted for independence from Ukraine on March 11 in a precursor to a referendum this weekend for the region to become part of Russia. AFP PHOTO/ VIKTOR DRACHEV

Crossing the line

Moscow sees the West’s meddling in Ukraine as an encroachment on Russia itself.
VLADIMIR RADYUHIN in Moscow
TOPSHOTSRussia’s President Vladimir Putin (front 2L) walks past Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff (front L), US President Barack Obama (front C), Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel (front 2R) and Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (front R) to his position for the family photo during the G20 summit on September 6, 2013 in Saint Petersburg. World leaders at the G20 summit on Friday failed to bridge their bitter divisions over US plans for military action against the Syrian regime, with Washington signalling that it has given up on securing Russia's support at the UN on the crisis. AFP PHOTO / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV

The Russian grandmaster

Vladimir Putin ensured that the G20 summit delivered a stinging blow to the U.S. President who pushed for a “punitive” strike against Syria and left h
VLADIMIR RADYUHIN in Moscow.
TOPSHOTS - US President Barack Obama (L) holds a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 summit at the Lough Erne resort near Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, on June 17, 2013. The conflict in Syria was set to dominate the G8 summit starting in Northern Ireland on Monday, with Western leaders upping pressure on Russia to back away from its support for President Bashar al-Assad. TOPSHOTS / AFP PHOTO / JEWEL SAMAD

A pause in ties

U.S.-Russia relations are put in “cold storage” after Barack Obama cancels his summit with Vladimir Putin over the granting of asylum to whistle-blowe
Vladimir Radyuhin
Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) ushers Russian President Vladimir Putin during a welcoming ceremony for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing June 5, 2012. China said on Tuesday that both Beijing and Moscow oppose foreign intervention or forced regime change in Syria as Putin arrived for a security summit. REUTERS/Mark Ralston/Pool (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS)

Strategic embrace

Strategic ties between Russia and China, driven by economic and geopolitical compulsions, are growing apace, prompting some analysts to warn of greate
VLADIMIR RADYUHIN in Moscow

Putin's progress

Russia: Vladimir Putin wins the presidential election for a third time amidst a wave of protests against him.
VLADIMIR RADYUHIN

Eurasian pie

Kyrgyzstan is in the midst of building a Western-type democracy in an undemocratic regional environment.
VLADIMIR RADYUHIN

Sitting on the fence

Russia's abstention from the Security Council vote on Libya is guided purely by pragmatic considerations.
VLADIMIR RADYUHIN

Velvet gloves

The WikiLeaks Russian dossier exposes the NATO claim that the alliance's eastward expansion is not directed against Russia.
VLADIMIR RADYUHIN

Ethnic flare-up

IN June, Kyrgyzstan was gripped by the worst violence in its post-Soviet history, which pushed the impoverished Central Asian state to the brink of co
VLADIMIR RADYUHIN

Challenge of change

in Moscow
VLADIMIR RADYUHIN
Deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev surrounded by bodyguards, at Teyit village near Jalalabad in southern Kyrgyzstan on April 12.-SERGEI GRITS/AP

Presidents flight

FIVE years after the Tulip Revolution, a violent popular revolt has once again overthrown the government in Kyrgyzstan, an impoverished former Soviet
VLADIMIR RADYUHIN
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